Construction accident at World Trade Center site

Associated PressFirefighters inspect a load of steel beams and broken cable that fell onto the back of a truck at the World Trade Center construction site, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 in New York. Preliminary reports indicate that a crane atop Four World Trade Center was unloading the beams from the truck when the cable snapped, dropping the beams onto the truck. No one was seriously injured in the accident.

NEW YORK — The New York Fire Department says a crane dropped metal beams at the World Trade Center site, damaging a construction vehicle.

No one was in the truck when it was hit on Thursday.

The FDNY says one person was checked out by medical workers at the scene, but there were no serious injuries.

Preliminary reports indicate that the crane was removing the beams from the truck when a cable snapped. It's not clear how high the load had been lifted before it dropped.